Stripers Under Attack by Flesh Eating Bacteria
 

Caught several schoolies today. Half of them looked as though some flesh eating bacteria had at them. Main body and fins looked like the fish had been dragged along a gravel road. Anybody familiar with this condition? Sorry, no pictures.

not caused by big waves then?

Search mycobacteriosis, you can catch it so be careful.

yup, Joe had it
and it ate his pancreas

Fin rot
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Could be; but he said it was on the main portion of the body also.

Didn't have the red lesions associated with mycobacteriosis. Instead they just looked battered, scales dislodged, bruised skin/flesh, fins shredded or almost gone.

Every late fall and early spring I catch a lot of these icky fish. Sometimes they have a white pus like slime.
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YEP TWO DIFFERENT things ;;

the funky slim ones I,ve been catching for 30 years .

Got some real messy ones last week ;

then there is the mico@#$%^&*( disease . that,s the one with the soares /
I hadn,t seen those until the last 5- 6 years ;

last year Denis & I got 125 fish up to 18# one day ... 100 had them ......... the next week are catch was down / but so was the average size & the percentage of disease fish were down .

this week two trips one 32" fish with the leasions & one small fish with the creeping crud .

from all the guys that have studied this in depth ,,,,,,,they are both fatal ..........another reason the bass are in trouble .

our winter fishing has been going exactly as the May to November fishery ..... down hill every single year ;

last winter was the worse winter I,ve had since I can remember ..................... now guys don,t go & count the vertical snagging in the Thames ;;

I should go now its flat-ass / but M uck it :fishin:

I call it Sea Herpies.
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White pus mucous slime and creeping crud are also good descriptors of what I was seeing.

[QUOTE=Clammer;813870]YEP TWO DIFFERENT things ;;

the funky slim ones I,ve been catching for 30 years .
Got some real messy ones last week ;
this week two trips one 32" fish with the leasions & one small fish with the creeping crud .

sounds like ...........its temperature related :huh:

[QUOTE=cow tamer;813915]White pus mucous slime and creeping crud are also good descriptors of what I was seeing.




I get a lot of these in late winter and early spring. I my self like Raven believe its a temperature change as well as bacteria. I think the fish that get this are the ones that make there way into the back rivers and freshwater and stay for a while. Like salmon and trout when returning to rivers will also become the same way as they stay longer. Almost all the bass I get out of the Charles, Scortons,and mystic over Dec - Jan seem to have the red skin. Earlier this fall a got a staff infection under my chin which was thought to have come from a striper. So be careful out there

You do use protection, don't you? You don't want to be bringing home diseases to the Missus.